THE students have been slammed after posting films on YouTube of themselves wasting £600 worth of champagne at various sites around St Andrews.

TOFF students at Scotland’s poshest university have caused outrage by pouring £25 bottles of Moet champagne over their heads to flaunt their wealth.

The Hooray Henrys of St Andrews filmed themselves for YouTube wasting £600 worth of fizz at sites around the town.

Seven of the twits even gave themselves Moet & Chandon showers while running along the West Sands to mimic the opening scene of Chariots of Fire.

The culprits seem to be trying to prove that St Andrews students are richer than those at Newcastle, Edinburgh and Durham, where undergraduates have been dousing themselves in milk and port as part of a YouTube craze.

But their stunt fell flat with fellow students and the university, where a spokeswoman called it “idiotic”.

She added: “This behaviour has caused a lot of anger among students and staff.”

Michael Hulbert, chairman of the university’s Labour Club, said: “With young people worrying about the cost of their education in the light of Government attacks, this can only be described as insensitive in the extreme.”

Club member Daniel O’Hara added: “Sadly, this perpetuates the ugly stereotype of St Andrews as a finishing school for England’s public school elite.”

Labour MSP Neil Findlay, deputy convener of the Holyrood colleges and universities group, said: “At a time when many Scottish families are having to use food banks, this is rather distasteful and pathetic.

“It’s behaviour you would associate with George Osborne, Boris Johnson and David Cameron when they were members of the Bullingdon Club.”

The toffs’ YouTube video – which had been taken off the site last night – began with a student walking past the milk aisle in his local Tesco and stopping briefly beside the port before picking up a £25 bottle of Moet. He then emptied it over his head in the busy street outside.

The film also showed students “champagning” on the Swilken Bridge on the Old Course, outside the library, on the steps of the student union and in the famous St Salvator’s Quad.

Student pours champagne over himself in town centre

And in another scene, four twits lined up on the pier in the university’s red gowns before stripping them off, pouring champagne over their heads and jumping into the water.

In all, 25 bottles of champagne were wasted. That adds up to £625 – at least two months’ rent for many students.

YouTube users who commented on the video were unimpressed.

One described it as “childish and ignorant”. Another added: “Shameless excess isn’t cool.”

But a third user told the critics to “lighten up” and said the video was “obviously meant to be a joke between universities”.

The stunt also caused anger on Twitter, with user Sarah Duggers writing: “It must be wonderful to be this posh.” But other tweeters seemed to enjoy the film and posted links to it.

Olivia Ash-Ranger wrote: “Newcastle had milking, Durham had porting. Welcome to St Andrews: We have Champagning...”

St Andrews Student Association president Freddie fforde insisted the university did not deserve its image as a haven for privileged idiots.

He said of the video: “It’s laughable to suggest this somehow reflects St Andrews. It’s clearly a bad joke in poor taste.”

Freddie said many more students were raising cash for the Association’s new Bursary Fund than were taking part in stupid YouTube videos.

And he insisted: “That says a lot more about St Andrews. A handful of silly students does not make a university.”

St Andrews was criticised last month after it emerged that only 14 youngsters from Scotland’s 20 most deprived areas were admitted as students in 2011.

The university retorted that very few kids from poor areas were “achieving basic university entry grades”.

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